The journalist Ernesto Tenembaum aired on Radio With You with a sharp reading on the scandal of Manuel Adorni and the striking decision of Javier Milei to continue supporting his Chief of Staff despite the growing political cost. The interview of the official in The Nation+where he declared having gathered more than half a million dollars Thanks to investments in Bitcoin made between 2013 and 2018, it left the government in a difficult position to sustain. However, Milei did not let go of his hand. For Tenembaum, the explanation is not loyalty: it is fear.
“One thing that has been established is that Adorni knows, because Adorni has data and is part of the gang, so he has been paid, he has seen, he has been an accomplice, so he can speak.“said the driver. But he immediately objected to that reading: “I have a noise with that. I think that a repentant person who speaks is a guy who is very weak.“. And he completed: “Adorni has nowhere to fall. The opposition is not going to support it, the judges are not going to support it. The only one who banks it is Milei. The moment Adorni breaks up with Milei and tells something, Adorni can really go to prison. Telling things about the power to which one belongs is a one-way street and is very risky.“.
The most provocative hypothesis came next. For Tenembaum, the real reason why Milei does not go out to cut heads is that the fearful is he: “Milei has a reaction that is very clear with those who participated in business with him: what he seeks is not to attack them, not to offend them. Because the one who is afraid is Milei, beyond what Adorni can or cannot do.“.
To illustrate the pattern, the journalist turned to the background of the case Espert: “When the quilombo over Espert exploded, the entire world of liberalism knew that he had received money from a drug suspect, but they banked it until the last minute because they are afraid that Espert would suddenly give information to others.“The logic, according to Tenembaum, is repeated with Adorni: supporting him would not be an act of loyalty but of self-preservation.
Tenembaum’s analysis came at a time when pressure is mounting on Adorni from several fronts. The vice president Victoria Villarruel He described it as a “shame” and demanded his presence in Congress. Blocks allied with the PRO and the UCR also demanded that the government put an end to the situation. Despite all this, Milei limited himself to retweeting a message from libertarian filmmaker Santiago Oría in support of the official. A reaction that, in light of Tenembaum’s analysis, would speak less of conviction than of calculation.
